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Inside-out GUI
Today I did a little experiment to see if I could make using Cantabile's main window a little easier to use. I've never been happy with how each of the four main panels (MIDI routings, triggers, media players and racks/plugins) are independantly resizeable and scrollable as it makes it quite fiddly to get everything just right.
So I've turned things inside out and combined those four panels into a single scrollable area and made the panels automatically grow to make room for whatever they contain. See image below for example.
I'm still not decided on whether I should roll this into the official build and I'd like to get some feedback - so I've made an experimental build (this build is labelled 2042, but is actually 2042 with this added):
- links to experimental build removed as now available in official build
Please let me know what you think.
Posted on June 18, 2009
TiUser says:
I think it's better than before.
But maybe having tabs instead of a long list is another idea to check out.
Stephan says:
Yeah, it's definitely an improvement. Perhaps it's not the last word in this matter, but as a step forward, I think you should go ahead and implement the new behaviour.
Greetings, Stephan